5.5. Branching

Branching is described in Itanium ™ Architecture Software Developer's Manual Volume 4, Chapter 4.5.

5.5.1. Branch Instruction

See Itanium ™ Architecture Software Developer's Manual Volume 4, Chapter 4.5.

5.5.2. Absolute switch() code

Conforming applications shall not use absolute addressing.

5.5.3. Position-Independent switch() code

Where there are several possible targets for a branch, the compiler may use a number of different code generation strategies. See Itanium ™ Software Conventions and Runtime Guide, Chapter 9.1.7.